CONROE: P5LD2 or P5NSLi ?

[rob75]

Hi all,
I am building new PC with conroe processor (E6400 or E6600), and I must decide which Asus MotherBoard to couple with.
Because of my "saving money" issues, my alternatives are:

1) E6600 + P5LD2 or P5NSLi

2) E6400 + P5B Deluxe


Note that:

-Asus P5LD2 has chipset Intel 945P

-Asus P5NSLi has chipset Nvidia NF4

-Asus P5B Deluxe has chipset Intel 965P

(about Asus P5B (simple, not Deluxe), it's quite cheap, ant it has 965 Chipset, but I've seen from lots of forum that it seems to have many problem with certaint type of RAM's, and furthermore it doesn't have as many PATA ports as I need)


What should I buy?


thanks for any help

 

[darkjedi]

If you need PATA and are not too concerned with overclocking... go with the P5NSLI. I am running it as I write this. Nice simple board with (2) onboard PATA, (4) SATA and one Floppy. With my e6600 and Corsair DDR26400C4, I can OC it to 300 MHz FSB (2.7GHz and 900 RAM) but that is all. On the P5B Deluxe, I got up to 3.4GHz. However, I wanted to be able to do SLI and the extra PATA port has been useful for me.

Other then that the chipset gets a bit hot, so make sure you have good case airflow.

Oh yea, the memory voltage can only be upped to 2.1 volts. That will be a problem if you are using high speed OCZ memory, since it wants like a minuimum of 2.2 or 2.3. However, I have tried several sets of generic RAM as well as the OCZ PC5400 SOE, and it all ran great.

Hope that helps.

 

[rob75]

Than you for suggestion Darkjedi !

A last question: do you know if P5NSLI has Nvidia NF4 or NF570 chipset?